+1 for this - I'd like in particular to hear about the policies and allowed or expected uses of stackexchange In fact anything about stackexchange would be good - there's not a lot of discussion about it (from the people who know that is - not the idle speculation of the rest of us in meta) anywhere
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RhubarbAug 25 '09 at 14:03

you guys haven't figured out who the SE dev is? I mentioned on the podcast that he was a 10k+ rep SO user, along with his first name. That's all the hints I'm giving. :)
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Jeff Atwood♦Aug 25 '09 at 14:07

It sounds like Joel's going to be away, so potentially the next podcast could be quite a while away.

However, I don't see why Jeff shouldn't record a podcast with a guest instead of Joel... even if they only manage a half hour show instead of the full hour, I'm sure it would still be well worth listening too.

And yes, I'd love to go on the podcast some time... unless the mysterious "lost" email was because Jeff and Joel decided they couldn't stand the sound of my voice ;) There are plenty of other more interesting people though...

@jjnguy: You think you find it hard to believe. Imagine how I feel, from the perspective of knowing how ordinary I am. Things may change after the London DevDay.
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Jon SkeetAug 26 '09 at 7:47

Great idea ... nice of Jon to offer. But one thing I'd definitely like to hear is Jon's opinion on everybody's infatuation with him. It's got to be wierd. Has he had any stalkers yet?
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John MacIntyreAug 26 '09 at 20:46

I would like to hear how Jeff (and his team) Get Things Done! He just seems to wear so many hats, do so many things, developing, sysadmin, blogger, moderating the sites, avid twitter, plus he seems to be reading a million blogs, podcasts, youtube videos a day!

And on top of that has a baby!

I would like to know how he plans his day and deals with all these different tasks.

@Jeff, As our sons were born a couple of hours apart, I to would like to hear how you getting all this done.
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Rob AllenAug 25 '09 at 15:34

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Yeah, I find myself thinking "What would Jeff Atwood be doing?" whenever I find a free moment. And when I read though his twitter feed I think "Well, I guess he would be twittering!" But seriously, how many hours a day does Jeff "work"? How much is spent on thinking about what to code, coding, twittering, blogging, podcasting, twittering, etc?
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tooshelAug 25 '09 at 16:48

I like the idea of something about PHP too . . . get a different opinion in there and maybe change the way we think. I happen to like PHP but I like C# too (and even VBScript . . . they all have a place in my heart!).
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tooshelAug 25 '09 at 15:04

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I heart this idea so much I would upvote it ten times if I could.
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JSBձոգչAug 25 '09 at 15:38

After reading this post and realising that we actually have a blind-programmer tag and two confirmed blind users on StackOverflow, one with 6000+ reputation already, I would like to know how and what has been done to make the site more accessible for these users, and although a minority how Jeff and Joel feel about reaching such a unique target?

Interview Phil Haack and/or Scott Hanselman. I know that you've done lots of podcasts with Hanselman but I don't recall any with Phil Haack. Also Rob Conery worked on ASP.NET MVC and I know that he's no longer with Microsoft but his angle on what you've done with MVC would also be interesting.

This may surprise you, it doesn't matter who's in the podcast, where it's made, what it's about, so long as it is made at regularly scheduled intervals. Granted it's polite to start a less ordinary podcast with a comment that says, "this week Joel is in france, so we have a ventriloquist with a dummy of Joel as a guest".

Make a podcast. Un ordinary ones may be short. They may even be a edited version of out-takes. Anything....

I would like to hear a discussion with a developer that is working on the AdSense for Google. Jeff has voiced a lot of opinions about AdSense which I tend to agree with but hearing from the source about why their model isn't working as intended and what they are planning to do about it would be very interesting.

How about how you obtain the detailed metrics and statistics for StackOverflow. Did you have to code the logging of key metrics? Also, how does Stack Overflow make enough money from just the few ads to pay for Jeff and the other two developers, plus other expenses like hosting, etc? BTW, where is is hosted?
Brian

I'd like to hear some talk on the Maker's Schedule/Manager's Schedule as Paul Graham talks about here and how this may effect work on the sites as well as how Fog Creek handles this type of thing. This seems to be something that people I work with don't get who are outside of the programmer group despite it being a big part in how things get done.